The Asus ROG Rapture AX11000 is a tri-band Wi-Fi 6 router with eight antennas and a massive footprint. It’s billed as a gaming router, and it has some great features for gamers, but hardware like this is also perfectly suited to large houses with tons of devices, streaming media, working, and just about anything else you might want to throw at it. I recently unplugged my trusty Eero and slotted in a ROG Rapture AX11000 for a five day trial by fire....

Asus is a key player in the budget laptop space, and the 14-inch X441BA is a meat-and-potatoes example of just such a machine. The unit I got my hands on is capable of a very basic, very specific set of tasks, but beyond that is really nothing much to be excited for. That said, there’s a surprisingly good display on-board—something that is often lacking on this end of the price range—and the weight is surprisingly light for its size....

Choosing the Right Rip Settings for Audiobooks The default setting for importing audio in Apple’s music player is the iTunes Plus Format, which encodes audio at a sample rate of 44.1 Khz, with bitrates of 256 Kbps for stereo or 128 Kbps for mono. However, this setting is more suitable for music, which typically contains a complex mix of frequencies. Most audiobooks are predominantly voice, so using iTunes Plus can be overdoing it, unless space isn’t an issue....

What Is DAZN? DAZN, pronounced ‘Da Zone,’ is a sports-only streaming service. Subscribers can watch live and on-demand sports events from multiple devices. DAZN provides access to European boxing, MMA, F1, and other professional fights legally in the United States for sports fans across multiple streaming platforms. There are two subscription options: Monthly and annual. There is no free trial offered for new DAZN subscribers. DAZN Streaming Requirements DAZN is available on most streaming devices, such as mobile devices, smart TVs and connected devices, and game consoles....

Brave Search, from the privacy-centric project that also makes the Brave web browser, is now out of beta and has launched a new feature called Goggles that allows people to create custom rules and filters to alter the way the results are ranked. In essence, this enables people to customize their search results. “Essentially, Goggles will act as a re-ranking option on top of the Brave Search index,” noted Brave as it announced the feature....

What Is a Browser Hijacker? A browser hijacker is software that installs itself onto your device without your knowledge. It can come in the form of a PUP (potentially unwanted program) that you don’t even realize you are downloading when you install a computer program, or it can sneak into your system as a part of a larger computer virus obtained through an email attachment or some other means. How Does a Browser Hijacker Work?...

I installed the Pixma TR4500 in my home office for five hours of intensive testing and about five days of general use. I tested things like print speed and quality, photo printing quality, scan and copy capabilities, and ease of use. I was pleasantly surprised by the overall performance of such an affordable printer, but not enough to recommend it for anything but light-duty home use. Design: Oldschool interface and controls The Pixma TR4500 doesn’t look dated overall, but the interface and controls do....

What Does the PS Vita Mean for Gamers? Here’s a translation of what all those fancy specs will mean when you’ve actually got a PS Vita in your hands. 5 Ways the PS Vita is What Gamers Wanted in the First Place The PSP was a lovely thing, but there were certain elements lacking, things that gamers really, really wanted. Here’s how the PS Vita is the PSP we wanted in the first place....

If you’re focused on keeping compact tech devices, baby items, and other smaller household objects germ-free and safe to use, phone sanitizers like the Coral UV LED Sanitizer and Dryer (also known as the Coral UV 2) offers a compelling solution. This second-generation model brings UV-C LED technology to the average home in a box-like build that the manufacturer promises is safe, odor-free, and energy-efficient. Designed to eliminate 99.9 percent of bacteria and backed by third-party lab results, the Coral UV 2 could be the ideal solution for quickly sanitizing high-touch items you use every day....

Darkroom feels instantly familiar, because it closely mimics the layout of the built-in Photos app. But when you actually start to use it, you realize that it was designed to be used, and not just to be looked at. Darkroom is so clearly just a better, easier, more powerful version of Photos that it seems like it must have been the plan all along. I asked CEO and founder Majd Taby if that was the case....

How Is the DSi XL Different Than the DSi? The Nintendo DSi XL has features similar to the Nintendo DSi, including two cameras, built-in photo editing software, built-in music editing software, and an SD card slot. However, the DSi XL differs from its predecessor in a few key areas. Larger Screens The screens on the Nintendo DSi XL are 4.2 inches measured diagonally. This makes them 93% larger than the DSi....

What Is a DSK File? A file with the DSK file extension could be a disk image file created by various programs for storing images of disks for backup purposes. Some files that end in .DSK could instead be Borland project desktop files that store project-related files and references used by the Delphi IDE or other programming software. If your DSK file isn’t in either of those formats, it’s most likely a Simple IDs database file that stores ID cards....

What Is a DWF File? A file with the DWF file extension is an Autodesk Design Web Format file created in computer-aided design (CAD) programs. It’s a highly compressed version of a CAD file that’s useful for viewing, printing, and transmitting the design without the need for the recipient to understand how to use the software that created the original drawing. The file can be really simple and include just a single sheet or have multiples and be complex to the point of having fonts, color, and images....

The Earin A-3 Earphones are some of the most unique true wireless earbuds in the space. And that sort of makes sense, because Earin was actually an early adopter of the true wireless market—releasing a pair right around the same time that Apple dropped its AirPods. The A-3 are the latest generation of Earin’s offerings, and the look, feel, and performance of these headphones are very different from the other flagship models in the space....

The service allows for short text messages to be sent from one cell phone to another or from the internet to a cell phone. Some mobile carriers even support sending SMS messages to landline phones, but that uses another service between the two so that the text can be converted to voice in order to be spoken over the phone. SMS began with support just for GSM phones before later supporting other mobile technologies like CDMA and Digital AMPS....

The company held its annual Facebook Connect conference on Thursday and threw down the gauntlet with regards to all three kinds of digital reality. Mark Zuckerberg laid out his plans for the future, wrapped in the umbrella of what he is calling the “metaverse.” What is the metaverse? Facebook’s CEO likened it to another world laid on top of the real one, calling it an “embodied Internet.” “Instead of looking at a screen, or today how we look at the Internet, I think in the future you’re going to be in the experiences, and I think that’s just a qualitatively different experience,” Zuckerberg said....

The social network announced the upcoming updates to Groups during the Facebook Communities Summit on Thursday. The new features are primarily aimed at group admins, but members of Groups will notice the differences, as well. The new features include customizable colors, backgrounds, and fonts, community awards that members can give out to others, community fundraisers that live in a group to raise money for a cause, Community Chats in Messenger, reoccurring events, and more....

How Do I Add Friends to a Restricted List on Facebook? What Facebook Posts Can Restricted Users See? Facebook friends on your Restricted list will still be able to see all of your posts published with the Public privacy setting as well as any posts published with the Friends privacy setting that they are personally tagged or mentioned in. Public posts are identifiable by the globe icon while Friends posts have the icon that looks like two people....

How to Search Facebook On Facebook, you can search for people, places, photos, interests, posts, groups, and entities with a fan page (for a community, organization, or public figure) or a business page. How Privacy Concerns Affect Searches Facebook searches and returns information about people who gave the social network permission to share. For example, if you opt not to post your current employment on your profile, you won’t appear in a search for that place of business....

The use of Flash has been declining for years now, according to The Verge. Major browsers like Safari and Google Chrome ditched the plugin near the end of last year. Microsoft even ended support within Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Edge Legacy, and Internet Explorer 11. Now, however, the company is also ending support for Flash in Windows 10. Adobe, the creator of Flash, ended support for the format at the end of 2020, with the company going on to block Flash content from running in the player in January....